Ludwig Bölkow Campus

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The Ludwig Bolkow Campus (short LBC ) is a research and technology location for industry and science in the field of aviation and aerospace and security technology in Taufkirchen on the municipal boundary to Ottobrunn southeast of the Bavarian capital Munich . It was founded in March 2012 and is named after the German engineer and entrepreneur Ludwig Bölkow . It is the location of the Faculty of Aviation, Space Travel and Geodesy of the Technical University of Munich .

Location and connection

Most of the site is in the Southeast High Technology industrial park in the Taufkirchen community area. The border between the two municipalities of Taufkirchen and Ottobrunn runs through the industrial park along Christa-McAuliffe-Strasse, then along Lise-Meitner-Strasse, Caroline-Herschel-Strasse and finally Einsteinstrasse. In the north and northeast, the industrial area borders on the sports park and the residential area of ​​Ottobrunn, in the south on the industrial area of Brunnthal , from which it is separated by federal highway 471 . In the west, the site ends at Ludwig-Bölkow-Allee, about 1.7 kilometers further are the residential areas of Taufkirchen. In addition to the federal highway 471, the campus is also connected by the federal highway 8 (junction Taufkirchen-Ost ) in the west and the federal highway 99 (junction Ottobrunn ) south of the Brunnthal industrial area.

Furthermore, the area and its immediate surroundings are served by several bus lines at the stations Einsteinstraße , Hugo-Junkers-Straße , Lilienthalstraße , Marie-Curie-Straße and Willy-Messerschmitt-Straße . An expansion of the Munich underground line U5 , which currently ends at Neuperlach Süd station within the city, is under discussion . Considered were six, in December 2019 three different routes, each with four new stations to be built, which would all end on campus. A cable car along federal highway 471 was also considered as a further connection option. An expansion of the local public transport is necessary in view of the planned construction of the largest faculty for space travel in Europe, due to which the previous connection to Ottobrunn and the industrial area southeast high technology by buses and the S-Bahn line S7 will no longer be sufficient.

business

Various companies and scientific institutions are located on the campus. According to an in-house leaflet , one of the core activities is “the targeted implementation of research results into marketable products”; In order to cover this path, the settlement of spin-off and start-up companies on campus is being promoted. A branch of the Business Incubation Center of the European Space Agency has been located on campus since 2014 . Ludwig Bölkow Campus GmbH  - a joint venture between Airbus , IABG and Siemens  - and the Munich Aerospace association, representing the scientific partners, are responsible for running the campus . These are the Bauhaus Luftfahrt , the German Aerospace Center , the Munich University of Applied Sciences , the Technical University of Munich and the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich .

Since 2015, the campus site is the dual degree program "Aeronautical Engineering" in which the University of the Bundeswehr pilots of the Armed Forces are trained. Also in 2015, the “Algae Technology Center” built by the Technical University in cooperation with the Airbus Group was opened. The aim is to research efficient processes that are used to produce biokerosene and valuable chemical substances from algae . In April 2018, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder announced the establishment of a new faculty of the Technical University on campus as part of the Bavaria One space program :

“Bavaria has to stay at the forefront of progress. Anyone who rests falls behind. We have the courage to undertake futuristic and visionary projects. To this end, we are making space travel a key Bavarian technology again and are establishing our own faculty at the TU in Ottobrunn. The focus is on the new Bavarian space program "Bavaria One". The aim is to develop unmanned, suborbital missiles, earth observation and quantum sensors. "

- Markus Söder, Bavarian Prime Minister : Government declaration of April 18, 2018

The Free State of Bavaria is supporting the program with investments of initially 700 million euros, designed for four years from 2019. The largest space faculty in Europe is to be created. On July 18, 2018, the University Council of the Technical University approved a founding resolution of May 9, 2018, whereby the establishment of the "Faculty of Aviation, Space and Geodesy" with headquarters in Taufkirchen and Ottobrunn was final. In the final stage, it should include more than 55 professorships . The faculty went into operation in the 2019/20 winter semester, initially with a bachelor's and four master's degree programs .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ludwig Bölkow Campus (Flyer). (PDF; 3.8 MB) Ludwig Bölkow Campus GmbH / Munich Aerospace e. V., accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Sebastian Schuch: U5 extension towards Ottobrunn is concrete. Merkur Online, February 14, 2019, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Laura Forster: U5 to Ottobrunn and Taufkirchen: There are three routes - and none is good enough. Merkur Online, December 2, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Laura Forster: The future is in the air: The cable car should connect the south and north of the district. Merkur Online, November 18, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b The Ludwig Bölkow Campus. Innovations for aerospace and security (image brochure). (PDF; 2.8 MB) Ludwig Bölkow Campus GmbH / Munich Aerospace e. V., accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Daniela Bode: The dream of green flying. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 14, 2015, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The best for Bavaria. Government declaration by the Bavarian Prime Minister Dr. Markus Söder, Member of the State Parliament, on April 18, 2018 in front of the Bavarian State Parliament. (PDF; 5.5 MB) Bavarian State Chancellery, Public Relations Department, April 2018, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ulrich Walter: This is behind Markus Söder's space program. Focus Online, October 11, 2018, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  9. ↑ New faculty for aviation, space travel and geodesy. Technical University of Munich, September 21, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  10. ^ Mission Pioneer Forge: Our range of courses. Faculty of Aviation, Space and Geodesy, accessed December 7, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 45.9 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 30.3 ″  E